I am running zimbra on a vmware server setup. I am using loose images for the OS (debian), /opt, and /home.

The image for the operating system got corrupt. Now that isn't a real big problem, debian was reinstalled and re-setup from a backup etc in a short while. After that i ran trough a zimbra installation and when that was done i just removed the /opt directory and remounted the old image with the zimbra installation.
The zimbra server etc. is working perfectly just as before, but I'm having some problems upgrading to a new version.

When i try to upgrade it does recognise a zimbra installation currently exists. But during the installation it doesn't upgrade the ldap databases etc. but just writes as if it was a new installation. So altough it recognises and does an upgrade, it actually does a new install.

What can I do to upgrade to the latest version of zimbra? The current is 4.5.(9 or 10, not sure :X )

02-13-2008, 03:30 AM

uxbod

what does rpm -qa | grep -i zimbra show ?

02-13-2008, 03:39 AM

BarthezZ

Well nothing as i'm using debian, which isn't a rpm based distribution.

But that package is installed by the intaller script, and isn't being "used" as the opt directory was replaced by the old one.

02-13-2008, 03:56 AM

uxbod

DOH! :)

Perhaps it may be worth shutting down Zimbra, removing /opt again, remove any zimbra package that may be installed. Checking through the deb install area and removing any remnants. Then install zimbra again, remove /opt, and mount your old one again. Or something along those lines.

02-13-2008, 04:03 AM

BarthezZ

But that kind of is what i did in the first place :p

Ah well, luckily it's virtual and a not that essential server so i can screw around a bit with it.
Going to try :)

02-13-2008, 04:07 AM

uxbod

Did you run a zmfixperms when /opt was remounted ? Does the /opt directory have the correct permissions. Sorry just thinking out loud what I would look at.

02-13-2008, 04:13 AM

BarthezZ

Well yes it does, because it just runs perfectly, only when upgrading it doesn't anymore. I didn't run any scripts (like fixperms)

02-13-2008, 04:27 AM

phoenix

A lack of RAM can cause upgrade problems, do you have enough?

02-13-2008, 04:33 AM

BarthezZ

2GB is assigned, should be enough as I was able to upgrade in the past to other versions.

02-13-2008, 04:40 AM

phoenix

Which version of Zimbra are you trying to upgrade to? Is the /opt on another drive and is it a symlink?